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- (See bottom of this file for information on how to use these icons in
- your system.)
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-
- Ahem....
-
-
- Well, it seems like I just get finished designing icons, and Commode-Door
- releases another upgrade to AmigaDOS.
-
- So, here is the latest batch of icons for WB 2.1 - In the 2.1-ICONS directory
- is the tool SWAPICON. To use this, click ONCE on the SWAPICON icon,
- then holding down the SHIFT KEY, click ONCE on the icon you want to use
- as the NEW image, and then SHIFT-CLICK on the icons you want the image
- to replace, DOUBLE-CLICKING the last one. A requester will open giving
- you the name of the image that will REPLACE the others, and ask if you
- want to proceed. If the NEW image is not the one you want, select CANCEL
- (zzzzzzzzzzzzzz... oh, sorry, but really, do I have to tell you this?) If
- you're really confused, just double-click the SWAPICON icon, and a window
- will open up with a list of instructions on how to use it. The application
- was written by Richard Mazzarisi, and is a Godsend for this kind of
- gruntwork.
-
- So, Friday is here, and I've just spent another week listening to co-workers
- whine and blubber about why they don't have any easy way to change their
- icons on the Mac Quadras at work. Har-D-Har-Har. When they approached
- me for a solution, I opened up the application "RESedit" and wished them
- bon-appetite. They did not appreciate the humor...and lord knows they're
- too damn cheap to BUY an application to do this (which I, for one, cannot
- understand - especially since they elected to purchase the Macintosh, a
- system which is far and wide regarded in the industry as
- The-Computer-That-Ate-My-Wallet!)
-
- Of course, on the 1-BMs, life doesn't seem to get any better. Windows
- seems content with its current mutation into an offensive, voracious memory
- pig - gobbling up system resources with an unrestrained gallop and sporting
- an atrocious mal d'image GUI with its circus of triple-quadruple-quintuple
- mouse click arrangement, apparently designed with dexterity-fatigue as the
- primary goal. If Commode-Door were serious about boosting sales of the
- Amiga, they would send all potential customers one of these turds from BIG
- BLUE, and include the icon-illness of Windows 3.1 with its uncooperative
- "managers" and driver assignment headaches.
-
- One final thought. Earlier this week, I was musing over the LIFE imitates
- ART imitates LIFE imitates ART ad infinitum al nauseaum (except at work,
- where ART tends to imitate the competitor of the week), and I recalled the
- film "Yellow Submarine", where the BIG IDEA was to save the (albeit mythical)
- population from the oppressive domination of a group who sucked every last
- drop of creativity out of them by bonking them on the head with, what else,
- -BIG BLUE-APPLES. Hmmmmm.....
-
-
- C'est la vie dans Afrique, enfante.....
-
- Roger McVey
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- To use these icons in your system:
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- First, you should definitely be using at least Workbench 2.04 for your system.
- You will probably also want to have an accelerated machine. And you'll want
- the utility "CpuBLIT" (Found on DevWare disk WB105) to increase the speed of
- text-scrolling/display (because it's gonna be reallly slow on a non-A3000
- computer in hires, interlaced and 16 colors!)
-
- The first thing to do is go into your PREFS drawer, open up the ScreenMode
- editor and change your screen to Hires-Interlaced with 16 colors (hope you
- have a lot of chip memory!!!) Make sure you select SAVE to exit the
- ScreenMode editor so that your system will come up in this resolution all the
- time.
-
- Next, double-click on the "Hi-Respalette.16" file...this will set your colors
- to the correct ones so the icons display o.k.
-
- Next go into your Palette editor in your PREFS drawer. When it comes up with
- your new colors, select SAVE...this will make your system come up with these
- colors from now on.
-
- You are now ready to start swapping out all of your icon images in your
- system. To do this, you will use the enclosed program, SwapIcon.
-
- Theory of use to SwapIcon: SwapIcon will ONLY change the images from one
- icon file to another. It will NOT change any of the tooltypes (it will keep
- all of them), it will not change the icon's type (project, drawer, disk,
- trashcan, etc.)...in short, it will keep *ALL* the attributes of your current
- icon...just change the image out. This makes the task soooo much easier!!!
-
- To use SwapIcon:
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- Locate an icon whose image you want to change. (We'll call this OldIcon)
- Locate an icon whose image you want to change it with (We'll call this
- NewIcon)
- Locate SWAPICON's icon.
-
- Now, to swap out the image--using the left mouse button, click once on
- SWAPICON's icon to hilite it. Now hold down the shift key on your keyboard
- and click on NewIcon. While STILL holding down the shift key,
- double-left-mouse-click on OldIcon.
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- If this has confused you, you can just double-click on SWAPICON's icon for
- it's own internal help.
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- Make sure you show your computer off to your friends now. :)
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- Have fun!
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